$50/yr for wallpapers?!?! That’s some asshat seeing the enshitification train and thinking, “Man I gotta get on THAT!”

$50/yr?!?!

For WALLPAPERS?!?!

True, but… I mean… who would try to generate something like that as an image? … I take that back. I’m sure somebody would.

Instead of AI slop, that looks to me like someone that doesn’t speak the language hurriedly transcribing it from paper, getting paid by the recipe, and knowing nobody is going to verify anything. AI knows how to spell turkey and kosher.

True, unless that xor wasn’t a typo, in which case all seven of them aren’t those things.

No, wait, I got that backwards. It would still be 4 (ignoring the fact that an xor can’t have three inputs, anyway). (Fuck it. It’s been too long since I’ve needed to know this shit. I need another beer.)

6543 inventions are currently suppressed.

Like what?

/s

That would be great, but this new Internet will somehow need to be able to accurately detect and block AI generated content.

My guess is that the new social media will be people physically going to established common areas in their communities and talking to each other in person, face to face, which has it’s pros and cons.

Back when I was a whee whippersnapper, we would click the reply button and type, “Ok”, or “thanks”, or “Ok, thanks”, or “gotcha”, or “:-)”, or “+1”, or “LOL”, or “LMFAO”, or … I mean, it was onerous, with those extra couple clickity clicks and tappity taps, but somehow we managed.

This should be the top comment. Now, excuse me. I’ve got a donation to go make.

ETA: Done. I felt dirty using Paypal, but I was being lazy, right up until Paypal barfed up some error saying “This credit card can’t be used something something blah blah blah. Let’s try a different one.” In response to which I suddenly found the energy to go find the checkbook and an envelope.

after ChatGPT found

Did it, though? Or did it just tell you that make a probabilistic guess that those particular words could follow your prompt in that particular order, and you just credulously believed it.

Maybe you missed this part in the snippet above.

Those using ChatGPT showed significantly less activity in networks tied to cognitive processing and attention compared to students who wrote without digital help or used only internet search engines. Almost none could recall what they had written immediately after submitting their work. She received more than 4,000 emails afterward. Many came from teachers who reported students producing passable assignments without understanding the material. A British survey found that 92% of university students now use AI and roughly 20% have used it to write all or part of an assignment. Independent research has found that more screen time in schools correlates with worse results. Technology companies have designed products to be frictionless, removing the cognitive challenges brains need to learn. AI now allows users to outsource thinking itself.

Who are you calling buster, buster?

I can only imagine the utter chaos this would cause in a cube farm.

But, the only place where talking to your computer at length makes any sense whatsoever is where you’re alone in a private office and nobody outside of the office can hear you. Nobody wants to hear other people talking to their computer, and nobody wants other people listening to what they’re doing on the computer.

My spouse and I both work from home and keep our office doors open so that the cats can come and go. We have absolutely no interest in hearing each other work. I know couples that share a home office. It’s like these fucknut executives at M$ think everyone either lives alone or has a private office in the east wing of their McMansion.

And all of that is ignoring the fact that you shouldn’t need AI to interpret what somebody wants a computer to do. Discreet commands for discreet tasks have been a thing for as long as computers have existed and there’s no reason for that to change, regardless of the input method. Making commands fuzzy and open to interpretation is not an improvement.

You don’t need to know why anyone wants to do a thing to advocate for their freedom to do it.

You don’t know why they might want to do this thing. I also don’t know why they would want to do this thing. The difference is, I 👏 Don’t 👏 Care 👏. My opinion of their reason to want to do it is irrelevant to my advocating their freedom to do it.

And that’s all I’m going to say on the subject. If you can’t understand that basic fact, then I don’t know what else I can say.

what reason would anyone have

That’s none of your business. You don’t need to know why anyone wants to do a thing to advocate for their freedom to do it.

Just because you lack the imagination to think of reasons someone might have, doesn’t mean that they don’t have a perfectly good reason. But, they shouldn’t need to justify themselves to you.

Why do you need to know how other people use software to understand why arbitrary limits are arbitrary?

Why would anyone need to turn it on or off 3 times in a year?

Why would they need to limit you?

Anyone else reminded of Victor Borge?

https://youtu.be/TIf3IfHCoiE

Some of these devices have even been known to look for other similar devices within WiFi range, and phone home that way (i.e., send analytics data via a neighbor’s connected TV as a proxy).

Ummm, wut? I’m going to need some quality sources to back this claim up.

Value Valve

That makes a lot more sense than sea water and fresh water.